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New setup on windows

Open lordrak007 opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Hello, can i ask for helo to run mox on windows?

When i run command ".\mox.exe quickstart -skipdial [email protected]", it stop on line bellow. Creates folder structure but nothing else. Admin password: h6jcse2:VQTa checking generated config: parsing unknown user mox as uid: strconv.ParseUint: parsing "mox": invalid syntax (hint: add user mox with "useradd -d $PWD mox" or specify a different username on the quickstart command-line)

Thanks

lordrak007 avatar Mar 19 '25 17:03 lordrak007

It's not possible to run the full-featured mox on Windows. See https://github.com/mjl-/mox#compiling:

Mox only compiles for and fully works on unix systems. Mox also compiles for Windows, but "mox serve" does not yet work, though "mox localserve" (for a local test instance) and most other subcommands do.

Mox on unix is started as a privileged user, and starts an unprivileged subprocess (the quickstart looks for a username "mox" and asks you to create it). I don't enough about the windows process & user model to implement this on windows...

mjl- avatar Mar 19 '25 19:03 mjl-